QUESTION FOR JURY
Asked by Dr. O. C. Mazengarb, in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, to direct that there was no evidence to go to the jurv on. the charge agains-t Douglas Hector MacDonald Bruce, aged 41, garage proprietor, of negligent driving causing the death of Anthony Sutherland, Mr. Justice Blair held that the only mattvr for the jurv to decide was whether or not Bruce’s lights were sufficient. There had been no evidence of him being on the wrong side of the road, or driving at' excessive speed, and his brakes being faulty did not enter into the case. Bnice is also charged with failing to stop after an accident, and failing to ascertain whether he had injured anyone. In his opening address Dr. Mazengarb said that it would be splitting .hairs to expect a driver, on reaching the boundary of a restricted lighting area, to get out nnd adjust hie lights to full, then reverse the process on re-entering the area. He said that the general tenor of the reflations was to keep down light, and in having a newspaper tied over one of his headlamps accused had been trying to do th Five witnesses for the defence were heard yesterday, and the ease is expected to finish today. Mr. W. H. Cunningham is prosecuting.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 258, 30 July 1942, Page 2
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217QUESTION FOR JURY Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 258, 30 July 1942, Page 2
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